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Crash Course in Cardiac Nursing

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Outline

DAY 1

Cardiovascular Assessment: Critical Clues You Should NEVER Miss

  • Impending Doom: Recognizing the Red Flags
  • Neck Vein Evaluation
  • What Does the Blood Pressure Really Mean?
  • Don’t Miss a Beat Interpreting Heart Sounds
  • Significant Murmurs
  • Rapid Stabilizing Interventions

Life-Threatening EKG Changes: Clues From the 12-Lead

  • Location, Location, Location! Anatomy of the 12-Lead
  • 3 Rules of Recognition
  • Cardiac Axis: Meaning & Assessment
  • Recognition of RBBB & LBBB
  • STEM I & NSTEM I – What’s the Difference

Fast & Slow Dysrhythmias

  • Choosing Your Monitor Leads Wisely
  • Identifying AV Passive & Active Tachycardias
  • Aberrant Pathways
  • Atrial Fibrillation with WPW
  • AV Node Re-entry Rhythms
  • Mono and Polymorphic V-Tach
  • Heart Blocks
  • Critical Nursing Actions

Cardiovascular Drug Cabinet from A to Z

  • The Latest Updates & Recommendations
  • Medications that Impact Cardiac Output
  • Vasoactive Medications
  • Medications that Impact Clotting
  • Treating Hyperlipidemia
  • Management Strategies for Hypertension
  • Nursing Implications for Administration
  • Polypharmacy
  • Precautions with the Elderly Patient

DAY 2

Acute Coronary Syndrome: Diagnosis & Management Guidelines

  • STEM I vs. NSTEM I Treatment Strategies
  • Critical Cardiac Labs
  • EKG Interpretation: Identifying the Differences
  • Urgent vs. Emergent Interventions
  • Managing Complications

The Failing Heart: Acute Management Priorities

  • Systolic vs. Diastolic Heart Failure
  • Classification Systems
  • Acute Medication Protocols
  • Nursing Considerations With:
  • Biventricular Pacing
  • Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
  • Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump

Cardiac Emergencies: Risk, Recognition, & Response

  • Bedside Assessment Clues
  • Key Interventions for:
  • Pulmonary Embolus
  • Myocardial Rupture/Tamponade
  • Tension Pneumothorax
  • Aortic Dissection
  • Critical Thinking Checkpoints

Emergency Interventions for Atrial Fibrillation

  • Critical Decision-Making: The Decompensating Patient
  • Pharmacological Management Strategies to:
  • Control Rate
  • Control Rhythm
  • Prevent Stroke
  • Current Treatment Recommendations:
  • Cardioversion
  • Ablation
  • Surgical Intervention
  • Key Nursing Assessments & Interventions

Objectives

DAY 1

  1. Employ proper technique for measuring jugular vein distention (JVD).
  2. Contrast systolic and diastolic murmurs by where they fall in the S1/S2 cardiac cycle.
  3. List 3 benefits of beta blockers in a patient with coronary artery disease.
  4. Identify benefits for patients using blood thinners in atrial fibrillation that is not related to valve dysfunction.
  5. Differentiate findings on the 12-lead EKG to determine if a patient has axis deviation and what health care issues that may identify.
  6. Explain a simple monitoring technique to help differentiate if the patient is having an atrial dysrhythmia or not.
  7. Identify EKG clues to patients having aberrant pathways.

DAY 2

  1. Explain the difference between systolic and diastolic heart failure using a simple hand gesture to recognize ventricular dysfunction for each.
  2. Stage heart failure using the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology tool and identify intervention goals for each stage.
  3. Compare the use of the Impella device and intra-aortic balloon pumps in severe cardiac impairment.
  4. Evaluate findings in common cardiac labs, such as CKMB, Troponin, BNP/ Pro-BNP levels.
  5. Recognize 2 tools of recognition and 4 rapid interventions for patients experiencing Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS).
  6. Describe the decision-making process for stroke prevention in the patient with atrial fibrillation.

Target Audience

Cardiovascular Technology Professionals, Nurses, and other Healthcare Professionals

Copyright : 11/28/2017

ABG & Rhythm Analysis Made Easy

Program Information

Outline

  • Pulmonary Labs
  • Understanding Acid/Base Compensation
  • Identifying the Abnormal Values in 4 Easy Steps
  • Rhythm Analysis in 5 Steps
  • Tachy Rhythms
  • Fast Fatal Rhythms
  • Practice, Practice, Practice

Objectives

  1. Specify two common causes of ABG abnormalities.
  2. Analyze how the body compensates when the pH is outside of normal limits.
  3. Utilize 5 questions to help identify common rhythm changes.

Target Audience

Nurses

Copyright : 12/06/2017